A running list of how President Trump is changing environmental policy

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Steam and smoke rise from a power plant in Juliette, Georgia. The Trump administration is proposing changes to the way such pollutants may be regulated.

Photograph by Robb Kendrick, National Geographic Creative

The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.

The Trump Administration’s tumultuous presidency has brought a flurry of changes—both realized and anticipated—to U.S. environmental policy. Many of the actions roll back Obama-era policies that aimed to curb climate change and limit environmental pollution, while others threaten to limit federal funding for science and the environment.

It’s a lot to keep track of, so National Geographic will be maintaining an abbreviated timeline of the Trump Administration’s environmental actions and policy changes, as well as reactions to them. We will update this article as news develops.

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published on March 31, 2017, and was last updated on March 12, 2019.

Mounds of unsold coal stand above ground at ERP Compliant Fuels’ Federal No. 2 mine near Fairview, W.Va., April 11, 2016. With Donald Trump’s win in the race for the White House, scores of regulations that have reshaped the contours of corporate America over the last eight years suddenly seemed vulnerable.